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Dreamit HealthTech alum Biorealize has developed the B | Reactor, which is a device that automates the biofabrication cycle and makes it easier to design with biology. Read the story of how the startup’s co-founders started the company at University of Pennsylvania and worked with Dreamit HealthTech.

Eko, a Dreamit HealthTech alum, announced a new partnership with Mayo Clinic at the end of last week. The two organizations will collaborate to create a product that replaces echocardiograms and detects low ejection fraction in the heart.

Ever since we started CYR3CON, we are continually surprised at the hype cycle surrounding the application of machine learning. Many marketers opportunistically see it as another angle to entice buyers — and in talking to CSO’s — their frustration with the hype, equivocation, and machine learning marketing charlatans is palpable.

Dreamit HealthTech alum PhotoniCare and current cohort company Sana Health recently won awards at The MedTech Conference. Learn more about the awards they received and the medical devices they’re bringing to market.

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) are hosting a PropTech Challenge and giving startups a chance to win $50,000. This new virtual real estate hackathon encourages the development of cutting-edge solutions to solve challenges faced by today’s leading real estate companies and removes the physical limitations of a traditional hackathon, while creating active mentorship for up-and-coming technology innovators.

Earlier this month, our team at Dreamit kicked off our Fall 2018 SecureTech cohort, the inaugural group of security-focused startups in our new program led by Bob Stasio. After evaluating hundreds of potential startups for entry into the program, several trends emerged that point to how security technology will evolve in the coming years. We wanted to share some of those insights with you.

Dreamit UrbanTech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman gives his advice to founders in Propmodo about how to create a market size slide that will impress potential investors. Too often, founders present a top-down market size estimate that includes irrelevant pieces of the market and does not include any numbers related to product pricing. Investors have such low expectations from this slide that they often gloss over it during meetings and figure out the estimate themselves.

Dreamit UrbanTech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman talks about the qualities he likes to see when investing in companies, Dreamit Ventures customer immersion program, what separates Dreamit from other venture funds, and tips for impressing investors.

We recently announced our investment in InquisitHealth, a Dreamit HealthTech company focused on improving health outcomes via peer mentorship and coaching programs. The new round of funding brings InquisitHealth’s total funding, including non-dilutive grants from the National Institutes of Health, to $4.2M.

Blockchain applications have grown in popularity with the rise of technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But, whether blockchain can transform or disrupt healthcare for the better remains unclear. In this article, we evaluate several potential use cases for blockchain in healthcare and showcase some of the startups that are bringing this technology to the industry.

At the Future of Real Estate Tech Summit in Miami, three investors joined a panel to discuss trends in proptech. Michael Beckerman (Founder, CEO of CREtech), Jeff Berman (Partner at Camber Creek), and Andrew Ackerman (Managing Director at UrbanTech Dreamit) are thought leaders in the space and discuss the biggest changes in the market. As the industry grows increasingly aware of the cost and time-saving benefits of real estate technology spurring adoption and boosting sales, investor interest has skyrocketed. In 2017, venture investors deployed over $5 billion in real estate technology, more than 150 times the $33 million invested in 2010.

Dreamit portfolio company LevelUp was acquired by Grubhub in a “spectacular outcome” for the accelerator and venture fund. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told TechCrunch that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the company’s delivery business more scale, “This is kind of a different acquisition. It’s a product and strategic positioning acquisition.”

PhotoniCare's new hand-held device uses advanced light-based technology to see through the eardrum to the middle ear. Otitis media, commonly known as middle-ear infection, is an inflammation in the middle ear, the area behind the eardrum. It's usually associated with the buildup of fluid.

How big is proptech market? Venture investors sank $18.6 billion into real estate property technology — known as proptech — firms from 2015 to 2017, and more than 25 percent of that came in the fourth quarter of last year alone, according to a report from real estate tech research and marketing agency Re:Tech. In 2017, VCs put $12.6B into the real estate tech sector, with WeWork and Compass leading in terms of funds raised. Softbank invested $4.4 billion in WeWork and $450 million in Compass. United Stated-based real estate tech firms comprised nearly $6.5 billion, or 52 percent, of the venture capital funding raised in 2017.

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Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund that accelerates startups building transformative tech products in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security. Dreamit invests in startups with market-ready products looking to rapidly gain customers, initiate new partnerships and raise their next round of funding. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: UrbanTech, HealthTech, or SecureTech. Founders meet with dozens of potential customers and partners on multi-city Customer Sprints™, pitch leading venture firms during Investor Sprints™, receive hands-on coaching, and gain access to a vast network of experienced alumni and advisors. Since its founding in 2008, Dreamit has accelerated nearly 300 startups, including LevelUp, SeatGeek, HouseParty, Adaptly, Wellth, Biomeme, Tissue Analytics, Redox, Eko Devices, Raxar, and Elevate. Dreamit portfolio companies have raised over $800 million in follow-on funding and have a combined valuation of over $2 billion.